We are at war
Author and media consultant Peter Leyden and political commentator Ruy Teixeira have declared all-out war against conservatives. These regressives (they think they are "progressives" but they are not – they are dragging us backwards toward the Dark Ages) argue, quite correctly in my view, that America is currently divided into two camps, and one camp or the other must prevail.
In their view, co-existence or bipartisanship is impossible. "At this juncture in our history, there's no way that a bipartisan path provides the way forward." In other words, you can forget all that nonsense about crossing the aisle and finding common ground, because there isn't any common ground.
They write (emphasis mine throughout):
Two different political cultures already at odds through different political ideologies, philosophies, and worldviews can get trapped in a polarizing process that increasingly undermines compromise. They see the world through different lenses, consume different media, and literally live in different places ... At some point, one side or the other must win - and win big. The side resisting change, usually the one most rooted in the past systems and incumbent interests, must be thoroughly defeated.
Although I am in the camp that Leyden and Teixeira thinks needs to be squashed like a little tiny bug, I believe his cultural analysis is spot on. We are in fact locked in cultural civil war between two worldviews that have nothing in common, and one of those worldviews must prevail in the end while the other is thoroughly defeated and relegated to insignificance.
This is the challenge to conservatives, especially Christian conservatives: the other side, our cultural adversaries, know that we are in a death struggle between two competing views of the world. It is a war – fought not with bullets but ideas – in which total conquest is the only objective. So, here is the question: They know we are in a civil war – do we?
We believe in God and the importance of publicly acknowledging him in all our institutions. They do not. This is a binary choice: either God will be acknowledged, or he will not. There is no third way.
We believe unapologetically in the superiority of Christianity and in religious freedom. They do not. Either Christian bakers will have the freedom to live out their faith in the marketplace, or they won't. Either Christianity is better than Islam, and every other belief system, or it's not. There is no middle ground.
We believe in the sanctity of every human life, from conception until natural death. They believe in the dismembering of babies in the womb right up the point of birth. There is no neutral ground.
We believe exclusively in marriage as God has defined it and designed it, the union of one man and one woman. They do not. They believe two men or two women can form a "marriage." This again is a binary option. One either believes in natural marriage or he doesn't.
We believe that there are just two genders, or sexes, male and female, as the Bible teaches on its first page, an assertion confirmed by genetic science. They don't. They believe gender is fluid, so fluid that people can change their self-identification from one day to the next.
We believe in smaller government, they believe in bigger government. We believe in lower taxes and less regulation, they believe in higher and more. We believe in self-reliance, they believe in reliance on government programs. We believe in freedom, they believe in government control. We believe in secure borders, they believe in open borders.
Their conclusion:
America can't afford more political paralysis. One side or the other must win. This is a civil war that can be won without firing a shot. But it is a fundamental conflict between two worldviews that must be resolved in short order.
The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has enlisted in the regressive army. He calls this article, which calls for all of America to become what California is today, a "great read." No wonder he is shadowbanning conservatives like Ted Cruz to keep their message from getting out.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook are providing ammunition and materiel to our adversaries, even banning Diamond and Silk because their rhetoric is "unsafe to the community."
Progressives like Dorsey and Zuckerberg are ratcheting up their rhetoric and using every tool at their disposal to clamp down on conservative speech, perhaps out of fear that under the current administration we are about to retake the cultural initiative.
It's time for Christians to armor up. It's time for us all to recognize how serious the other side is to silence our message, to confine us, to restrict us, and eventually to exterminate us. We must push back hard against the darkness rather than meekly surrender. It's past time for us to "take up the whole armor of God, that [we] may be able to stand firm in the evil day" (Ephesians 6:13). There no longer is any place in the body of Christ for the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot. It is an evil day, and we are fighting for everything that matters. https://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/bryan-fischer/2018/04/12/we-are-at-war
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... in the religious section of NT.
This is unmitigated bullshit. You cannot claim that Christianity is the only religion and then claim that you support religious freedom. Either all religions are treated equally by the secular law there is not religious freedom. What conservatives appear to want is the right to force all others to obey their conservative religious edicts and claim that is religious freedom.
Discrimination in business has never been and cannot be a religious right in the US because the Bible is not superior to the US Constitution. I will not be forced to live by your religious beliefs when I also have equal religious rights to live and believe as I wish. There is nowhere in the 4 gospels that Jesus endorses discrimination. You should read them sometime
This is nonsense. I will not permit your religious views to determine my intimate decisions and my healthcare. You forcing me to obey your religious ideas is the opposite of freedom. If conservatives believed in the sanctity of life from birth until death they would support the social safety a net, public education and single payer healthcare. They would also oppose capital punishment. You would not turn away refugees and immigrants if you believed in the sanctity of life.
Our rights are not to be filtered through your bible. What business is it of your who a person marries, lives with, loves or has sex with? Marriage is not natural because it does not occur outside of humans, so don't try to claim that it is.
Once again what business is it of your who a person presents themselves as? It is obvious that you feel threatened by people who are different from you and you want to force them to live by your beliefs. Why are you bothered by the gender identity of another person? Is this also part of your support for personal freedom? Denying you and other social conservatives the right to run roughshod over the rights of others is not a violation of your religious rights.
We have seen too many times the results of what low tax and low regulation does to the economy. I'm tired of paying to clean up the anarcho-capitalist mess that they create when they crash the economy in their search for more money and power. Giving your religion the power to run my life is not freedom. That is a theocracy that is abusive to the rights of anyone who might think differently from your far right views, including other Christians whose beliefs do not align with your own fundamentalist ideas.
Brilliantly done Epistte.
Up X's 10!
Thanks.
No shit, we have been since 2001.
I'm pretty sure we've always had a group of people pissed off about something. It's just now we live in this cycle of Evangelical Know Nothings who live in a state of perpetual victim-hood.
We are at war
And no one came.
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*snort* Then why are you constantly trying to get the government to stop people from doing things you dislike? If you don't want to marry a man, then don't. But gay marriage does not affect you one little bit.
LOL. Sounds like you believe in a theocracy big enough to rule all the intimate aspects of everyone's life.
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I like how your Fuhrer's lawyer helped the RNC's deputy finance chairman pay $1.6 million so that the Playboy Bunny he was corking could get an abortion. Political embarrassment Trumps the "sanctity" of human life every time.
The smaller government that they have in mind is one that is too small to prohibit them from enforcing their draconian Christian fundamentalism. Larger governments would protect the religious rights of other people but these thumpers don't want any possibility of rational thought or equal religious rights getting in their way.
America needs a mix of all ideologies:
“United we stand, divided we fall”
Does Anyone remember this is still AMERICA ?
America needs a mix of all, conservatives, liberals and progressives.
A good blend will move America forward at a reasonable speed.
Too many of any one ideology is bad for America.
America needs to move forward as the world progresses.
Too many cons = little to no forward movement.
Too many liberals = move too fast forward.
Too many Independents = well you can’t have too many….lol (I’m one) LOL
Please research ALL candidates before you VOTE
The more Americans that research all the candidates for all the offices before they vote and vote for the most qualified, the better our government and country will be.
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PS: I consider myself {a pragmatist, realistically moderate, an independent and progressive Deist with both some conservative and liberal tendencies, depending on the issue or subject.}
Hard to pigeon-hole that one. Drives me nuts sometimes, but I’m not. My mother had me tested.
Although it has been suggested, I be retested.